That will really looking forward to the event. Here today at the studios, expecting quiet weather for it. We continue to feel the chill through the weekends, and then next week basically whole new ballgame. A, a lot of people traveling leading up to the christmas holiday, b, looks like large storm will in fact develop. And ill tell you exactly how we expect that to affect our region coming up the next few. Back to you. Philadelphia fire paramedic apologizes for photo post today his personal instagram page. The disturbing pictures shows two men pointing guns at the head after man who is dressed as a Police Officer. Eyewitness News Reporter jan carabeo picks up the story outside the Fire Administration building right now. Jan . Reporter ukee, erika, the social media post causing quite the controversy. Now the paramedics responsible for posting it has taken it down and apologize r for his actions, here it is, we grabbed it before he took it down off his stain gram account. It is again by
Ahead of course to travel plans, leading up to christmas here, and it look like a large storm is brewing. Well have all of the details on that and little trivia for you coming up. Vittoria . Im getting pumped. Good morning, everyone. You know, right now the roadways look great. Not dealing with any major problems, or delays, lets take a peak, shall we . If you are traveling right now on the schuylkill expressway, not too far away from king of prussia, maybe if youre doing some last minute holiday shopping, getting early start, not right now, because the malls not open, but anyway, later on, when it is, well let you know traffic wise how youre doing, but right now in the clear, little more in just a bit. Thank you, Instagram Post from Philadelphia Fire Department paramedic creates flurry of anger among First Responders. Now, he is apologizing, and his boss is doing damage control. Eyewitness News Reporter jan carabeo outside the Fire Administration building right now with more on the st
Other disasters would be less expensive and others were looking at, are we driving trends down . Are we seeing overall we contain overtime costs are we not, you know, doing things just because people always did it that way to really drive down the costs of every dollar we administer. I can give you things we work towards, case studies of disasters where we have done reductions versus what we would have spent before and show you trend. Youll show us metrics on outcomes . Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you, i look forward to hearing those. Back to the conversation with senator baldwin. You talked about grant programs, preparedness, and local First Responders and local agencies, and i certainly agree with that as governor after september 11th i can tell you directly what a difference the department of Homeland Security grants have made to our preparedness, and thats why i was concerned when i saw in the budget that you were proposing an 18 cut to preparedness grants, cut to training, and 1 prepond
Screeria nigeria. A look at two Agency Budget requests, first fee mas budget then a hearing on the department of transportations 2016 budget. And later Border Patrol officials discuss threats and security along the u. S. canadian border. Next fema administrator craig fugate renting his agencys 2016 Budget Proposal to a Senate Appropriations budget committee. It is for disaster radio preparedness and resiliency. From capitol hill. This is about an hour and a half. I call this hearing to order for the dhs appropriations subcommittee. Today will be id like to welcome administrator fugate, administrator of fee ma. I appreciate very much you being here, also senator shaheen appreciate you being here as well. Were here to discuss the fiscal 2016 budget for your agency. Before we get into the substance of your budget id like to take a moment and thank you for sending roy wright to fargo several weeks ago. It was very helpful and actually will pertain or his visit there pertains to one of the
That have capabilityies, we want to address that life safety immediate response, communications evacuation and sheltering. Thats pretty much something youre going to need to do in a lot of different events. This is our idea that grant dollars have build a lot of capability are looking at where do we need to put more emphasis. Our first work with dot is looking at training capabilities, we want to make sure Senior Executives in the fire service have the latest. But also looking into the Grant Programs and again as we see these threats emerging, because this is dual use, we do have capability, we always go to the consequences, what are the things we need to do if that happens. From a lot of Emergency Management preparedness grants which i again support this administrations recommendation and committee has done a lot of work there, those preparedness grants, those are some of the dollars they can be using to develop this community plans. There are other programs that are not part of fema